Tuesday, March 13, 2012

Girl Scout Week Day 3: Explore the World.

For today's activity, we decided to do a science project. Mark got into the act and brought home some dry ice so that we could study its properties.

Lauren got a big kick out of it and asked if we could have dry ice happy fun time everyday.

Marcus was not sure what to think of it...

...but curiosity got the better of him, like it usually does.

It was past Daisy's bedtime, so she really wasn't impressed...

...even though you can use it to blow up balloons!

I also did some experimenting on my own with my camera lenses. Today's challenge was "words."

Here I used a 50mm telephoto lens...

...and here I used my new 11-16mm wide angle lens. I think I had it set to 11mm. There's a bit of a learning curve with wide angle lenses. When used effectively, they can take some really breathtaking shots, so I'm going to keep practicing with it as much as I can.